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Maternity/ Clothing Payment

  • 04-02-2009 10:53AM
    #1
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand with this.

    I was given a docket for the social welfare to ask for a maternity/clothing payment before I am admitted to hospital to have my baby, but I don't know where to go and what to do with it. Could anyone help me please:)


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  • #2
    IsThatSo?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 988 ✭✭✭IsThatSo?


    I have never heard of it but maybe give them a ring and ask? They should have all that info, they really should have given you a leaflet. I googled it and came up with nothing at all.

    Maybe your Community Welfare Officer/PHN might know also?


  • #3
    Squeal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Squeal


    Hi, you should go to your community welfare officer for this. They will give you a supplementary welfare allowance form to fill out and you also need to bring a letter from your doctor that confirms you are pregnant. I applied when I was about 8 months gone and got a cheque for €200. Congrats on the pregnancy :)


  • #4
    mel123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭mel123


    who exactly is entitled to this, can everyone apply for it??


  • #5
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    mel123 wrote: »
    who exactly is entitled to this, is it for unemployed??

    Truthfully I dont know who is exactly it applies to, I was allowed it on the grounds that I was forced to take time out from college for the baby and have to wait 3 months before I can apply for JSA and do not qualify for SP.

    I know a 16 year old girl who got this payment when she had her son, I think it is based really on just getting mothers who are in financial difficulty ready for hospital.

    Then again I could wrong and all pregnant women maybe totally wrong and all pregnant women may be entitled to it!


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